{"id":18485,"date":"2024-10-25T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/?p=18485"},"modified":"2024-10-25T15:59:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T22:59:06","slug":"voting-rights-and-the-election-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/news\/voting-rights-and-the-election-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Rights and the Election Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18489 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-us-flag-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-us-flag-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-us-flag-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-us-flag-200x146.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-us-flag-548x400.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-us-flag-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vote-us-flag.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Tuesday, November 5, 2024 is the Presidential Election Day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The voter registration deadline is October 15, 2024.<\/strong> Oregon offers <a href=\"https:\/\/sos.oregon.gov\/voting\/Pages\/registration.aspx?lang=en\">online voter registration<\/a>.\u00a0 You can register by mail to vote in Oregon by printing a <a href=\"https:\/\/sos.oregon.gov\/elections\/Documents\/SEL500.pdf\">voter registration form<\/a>, filling it out, and mailing it to your <a href=\"https:\/\/sos.oregon.gov\/elections\/Pages\/countyofficials.aspx\">local election office<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also register to vote in person if you prefer. For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/sos.oregon.gov\/voting-elections\/Pages\/default.aspx\">State of Oregon: Voting &amp; Elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks a number of anniversaries granting the right to vote.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>154th anniversary of the 15th amendment that granted African American men the right to vote in 1870<\/li>\n<li>104th anniversary of the 19th amendment giving American women the right to vote in 1920. For Black women, however, the struggle for voting rights went on much longer and was only secured by the passage of the Voting Rights Act of<br \/>\n1965.<\/li>\n<li>59th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibiting unequal application of voter registration requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a time of reflection on both progress that&#8217;s been made and the work that remains in protecting our voting rights and strengthening our democracy.<\/p>\n<h4>Recommended Ebooks<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a time to reflect on the progress that\u2019s been made and the work that remains in protecting our voting rights and strengthening our democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18485"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36604,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485\/revisions\/36604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}